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Ross Hoffman, “Liberty and Authority,” 1934

Source: Ross J.S. Hoffman, “Liberty and Authority: A Political Essay,” AMERICAN REVIEW 3 (1934): 562-590. hoffman liberty and authority

Ross Hoffman, “The Totalitarian Regimes,” 1937

Interesting piece from a famous Fordham professor and Burkean.  Source: Ross J.S. Hoffman, “The Totalitarian Regimes: An Essay in Essential Distinctions,” AMERICAN REVIEW 9 (September 1937): 321-338. hoffman totalitarian regime

Jacques Maritain, “The Christian and History,” 1957

Source: Jacques Maritain, “The Christian and History,” JUBILEE (November 1957), 36-40. maritain on history

Interview with Paul Elmer More, 1943

pem interview Source: J. Duncan Spaeth, “Conservations with Paul Elmer More,” SEWANEE REVIEW 51 (Autumn 1943): 532-545.

Thomas Merton, “Time and Liturgy,” 1956

I always find it strange that Catholics possess mixed feelings about Thomas Merton.  For me, he was an absolute genius.  Brilliant and a man of almost impeccable integrity.  Of all of his writings, this–Time and Liturgy–is one of… Read More

Happy New Year: A Feast of Christopher Dawson Material

cd new decline and fall Dawson, “New Decline and Fall,” COMMONWEAL 15 (1932), 370-372. cd sign of bolshevism Dawson, “The Significance of Bolshevism,” ENGLISH REVIEW (September 1932): 239-250. cd review of mein kampf Dawson, review of MEIN KAMPF,… Read More

Dawson, Christianity and Sex (full book)

In the late 1920s, T.S. Eliot asked Christopher Dawson to write a small book on the meaning of family in the western and Christian tradition.  The two would come to collaborate frequently, but this was the first thing… Read More

Paul Elmer More, PAGES FROM AN OXFORD DIARY (full book)

Certainly one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read.  More finished it only days before his own death. pem pages from an oxford diary

Nicholas Berdyaev, “Christianity and Anti-Semitism,” 1948

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn regarded Berdyaev as possibly the greatest anti-communist thinker to come out of Revolutionary Russia. Here, translated, is a piece he wrote on anti-Semitism.  Fascinating. berdayeav 1949 christianity and anti semitism

Gabriel Marcel, “The Concept of Spiritual Heritage,” 1953

Not well known in the U.S., Marcel was one of the foremost Christian Humanists of 20th-century Europe.  This article, in particular, influenced Russell Kirk.  So much so that Kirk hoped to co-author a book with Marcel. Source: Gabriel… Read More

Peter Wust, “The Necessity of Metaphysics,” 1934

Source: Peter Wust, “The Necessity of Metaphysics,” COLOSSEUM 1 (June 1934): 14-18. wust 1934 metaphysics

Correspondence of Paul Elmer More and Stuart Sherman

Source: Jacob Zeitlin, ed., “Stuart P. Sherman and Paul Elmer More,” THE BOOKMAN (September 1929): 43-53. letters of sherman and pem